Pool

Rack 'em up at dive bars and pool halls across Leonida, where a friendly game of eight-ball inevitably leads to trash talk, side bets, and occasionally someone getting hit with a cue.

Pool in Leonida is the great equalizer — a game where a CEO in a Vice Beach lounge and a roughneck in an Ambrosia dive bar are playing the same angles with the same stakes. The billiards system features realistic ball physics, English spin mechanics, and a skill-based aiming system that rewards practice and punishes overconfidence. Every bar and pool hall has its own atmosphere and clientele: the upscale lounges in Vice Beach offer clean tables and cocktail service, the working-class bars in Port Gellhorn have tables with mysterious stains and regulars who've been running the same hustle since the '80s, and the backroom tables in Crosstown's social clubs are where the real money changes hands. You can play straight eight-ball, nine-ball, or enter into escalating wager matches where the buy-ins — and the consequences of losing — get progressively more serious. Master the art of the hustle: play badly on purpose to inflate the odds, then run the table when the money's on the felt. Just be aware that some sore losers express their disappointment through means other than a firm handshake.